Category: Communication

Stuttering related to brain circuits that control speech production

From the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Saban Research Institute media release: Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have conducted the first study of its kind, using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)… Read more »

Students have trouble judging the credibility of information online, researchers find

From the Stanford University media release: When it comes to evaluating information that flows across social channels or pops up in a Google search, young and otherwise digital-savvy students can easily… Read more »

Female scientists collaborate differently from their male counterparts

From the PLOS media release: Succeeding in the male-dominated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines can be very challenging for female faculty. Now, a Northwestern University study of the collaboration patterns… Read more »

Modeling shifting beliefs in a complex social environment

From the American Association for the Advancement of Science media release: A new model is allowing scientists to explore how changing an individual’s certainty in the belief on the truth of… Read more »

Game theory research reveals fragility of common resources

From the Purdue University media release: New research in game theory shows that people are naturally predisposed to over-use “common-pool resources” such as transportation systems and fisheries even if it risks… Read more »

Emotion detector could reveal if a date really finds you attractive: Is this the kind of world we actually want?

From the Lancaster University media release: An emotion detector which, potentially, can tell whether a person really finds you attractive on a first date has been created by researchers at Lancaster… Read more »

Vocal signals reveal intent to dominate or submit, study finds

From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign media release: You may not win friends, but a new study finds that you can influence people simply by lowering the pitch of your… Read more »